Jonathan SwiftJonathan SwiftJonathan Swift is in the middle of a corrupt society driven by the rich and there desire for money along with the poor and there struggles to survive. Swift would like for the wealthy to show mercy toward the lower class and the people of his country come together and help each other to better there kingdom.
The poor population is plagued by the sin of sexual immorality, theft, and hunger. The women widowed or married, sale themselves physically as a payment or for food to feed there children. This in return leads to them getting pregnant again and adding to there despair. Most women could not find work due to the large population. And the children learned how to make ends meet at an early age by stealing what ever they could to profit from or to feed themselves. The poor where to weak to work and put in a full day’s labor due to malnutrition. The women and children of this time had very little chance to make anything of there lives except to stay in the lifestyle they were born into.
The rich treated them like cattle leaving them in the streets and expecting them to survive like cattle in a pasture.Swift came up this very imaginative way of speaking his mind and expressing his thoughts. He mentions the idea of cannibalism, allowing babies to be sold by there mothers for payment for rent or for food and in return the wealthy would be getting prime meat. This would allow the mothers to quit selling themselves as sexual objects. But doesn’t that sound more like cattle than human beings! Breed them and then take the young to the sale. By doing this, the over populated country would become less crowded and women would have a means of income. Home life would become less violent and a family would be considered more valuable. Swift says “We should see an honest emulation among the married women, which of them could bring the fattest child to the market.
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By no means are there any “majors” or “vendors.” The human race has undergone one of many technological innovations since the Renaissance, a growing number of which date back to the Middle Ages. Among them are light weapons that have a powerful effect on the mind and body, chemical weapons used by the armies to destroy entire towns and cities to produce mass hysteria, “dirty” munitions used to make bombs to blow up the population of enemy cities, and “toxic” chemical, chemical energy weapons and gases. One of the most famous “technologies” of the Industrial Revolution was the use of a chemical weapon, used to turn the air of any major city into a “black hole.”
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It has been reported at least 30,000 European countries and millions of other countries have started to produce chemical weapons and chemical explosive devices. In March of this year an article by the Organization of American States (OAS) published in the journal Pravda showed that at least 80,000 human-sized chemical device designs for war had been devised since the industrial revolution began in the mid-eighteenth century.
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It is also not hard to see why Western nations, such as Germany and Scandinavia, are starting to adopt chemical weapons. According to the World Health Organization, over 5 million people worldwide have been exposed to carcinogenic pesticides, chemicals and toxins. The chemical toxins in these pollutants were initially identified as toxic by a laboratory in South Asia, but now are thought to originate in animals. In April of this year the UN Chemical Weapons Convention was ratified and included a new clause which would prohibit non-state actors from making, developing, releasing, selling, using, storing and transporting any chemical product which is capable of causing and/or causing serious bodily harm to human or international health or personal safety, or which is otherwise hazardous to human and non-state entities. Many of these existing non-state actors have been identified by the WHO as “potential threat actors.”
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Although the use of chemical devices is still largely unregulated, there is good reason to think that they will be very useful for a large number of purposes, from the development of nuclear warheads to the development of anti-federal and anti-democratic laws and governmental policies.
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